Babowai

Babowai (407-484) was Patriarch of the East from 457 to 484, succeeding Dadisho and preceding Barsauma.

Biography
Babowai was born in 407 AD to a Zoroastrian Persian family, and he later converted to Christianity and became a learned philosopher. In 457, he became Patriarch of the East following Dadisho's death, and he was imprisoned from 470 to 480 and tortured by the Magi for his apostasy. He later attempted to enlist the help of Roman bishops with ending Shah Peroz I's persecution of Christians, but Babowai's rival Barsauma intercepted the letter (which had been hidden in a cane) and delivered it to Shah Peroz, who had Babowai executed after he confessed that he had written the letter.